Time to Joogle Again
I am taking a post of Lesley’s from a year ago and repeating it in its entirety. An anti-Semitic web site has once again made it to the top of Google’s search results for the word Jew. Thus, we need to go joogling again. I will post another entry with links to other non-offensive sites to help shove the anti-Semitic site below the fold (to the fourth position) so it’s not seen unless you scroll down the list of results.
It seems that the top site on Google that comes in when doing a search for "jew" is an antisemitic site. So there's an effort amongst the blogosphere to do a Googlebomb and fix this. I've never participated in a Googlebomb before, but I'm Googlebombing for Jews now. Yes, every time I type the word Jew, I'll be linking to the Wikipedia entry on Jew. If enough Jews and non-Jews do this, eventually the Wikipedia entry of Jew will top the Google list on a search for Jew. So I urge you all, whether you are a Jew or not a Jew, to link to the Wikipedia entry on Jew whenever you type the the word Jew in a post.
And speaking of Jews, you may or may not know Passover starts tomorrow. What better time to let my people go by freeing the word Jew from a hideous first result on a Google search for Jew?
And a big shout out to Michele for mentioning me, a Jew, in her Adam Sandleresque Joogling song about Jewish bloggers.
Oh and one more thing. Jew.
UPDATE: Apparently this has proven to be a successful strategy, at least in Germany. The top website in a German Google search for "jew" is Wikipedia. It's still only #3 in an American Google search for "jew", though.